Jon Reisman
State of Delusion...
...is the phrase Chuck Schumer (D-AOC’s Senate Seat) used to describe the nearly two-hour State of the Union Address, President Trump used to troll the Democrats. I’m surprised that members of the Squad haven’t sued for relief from the cruel and unusual rhetoric that corneredthe lying left into admitting they value illegal immigrants over most “normal” American citizens, but most especially over oppressor white males and authoritarian Trump voters. Trump stated the Democrats are crazy; the Senate Minority Leader says Trump and his supporters are delusional. A fine basis for mutual trust and bi-partisanship.
Endangerment Will Robinson...
...The 1960s TV show Lost in Space featured a robot who often waved his arms wildly, warning “Danger Will Robinson,” usually as a consequence of the actions of the scheming Dr. Smith. I’m pretty sure Dr. Smith was a closeted member of the Democratic Socialists of America and would be a Graham Platner supporter today. The robot was an early version of ChatGPT President Trump reversed the 2009 Obama Endangerment finding, which did a green end-run around the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, which explicitly excluded any legal basis for regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. The Democrats and the environmental non-government organization industrial agitprop complex couldn’t have that. It prevented their quest to eliminate fossil fuels, worshipped Chinese-made windmills and solar panels, and drove electricity rates to uncompetitive virtue- signaling heights.
Janet Mills ran and governed as a climate alarmist, and Hannah Pingree is her policy heir. Every Democratic gubernatorial candidate, as well as independent Rick Bennett, is a committed climate alarmist and is responsible for policies that have doubled our electric bills, made the grid less reliable, and averted no climate change whatsoever.
As an added Democratic policy benefit, climate alarmist policies damage the poorer, more rural, and more Republican 2nd Congressional District more than the woke, affluent coastal 1st CD. Gov. Mills said you’re welcome. Thank you, Janet, may I have another?
The biggest danger I see Maine facing is the real possibility that Graham Platner will win the Democratic Senate nomination and pull Shenna Bellows to a ranked choice enabled gubernatorial nomination. Platner stands a real chance of repeating Bill Hathaway’s surprise 1972 defeat of Margaret Chase Smith.
Bellows would preside over the death of freedom in Maine, while Platner does the same in DC. Platner must think the world is his oyster.
DEI Defies Death...
… and the Democrats plan resurrection.
A year ago, President Trump issued an executive order ending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in higher education, the Federal Government, and in Federal grants. The executive order followed the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions decision banning racial preferences and affirmative action in favor of meritocracy, color-blindness, and equal protection. Of course, this only increased Trump Derangement Syndrome amongst the DEI industrial complex.
Most universities, including the University of Maine System, simply rebranded DEI as “Belonging and Inclusion”, dropping Equity. Here in Maine, Equity is and was being promoted by UMS and the State, without defining or assessing it, and that bit of policy malpractice hasn’t changed. There is still no definition of Equity.
I think that is because Equity means equal outcomes using racial preferences, and the left can’t be that transparent about their hatred of oppressor white males.
A common DEI claim is that “Diversity is our strength.” It seems to me to be as delusional as believing that a man can be a woman (another example of leftist refusal to define terms, whether it be “equity” or “woman”). I favor instead E pluribus unum, out of many, one, from our Great Seal. I’m sure that makes me a racist oppressor.
Jon Reisman is an economist and policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after 38 years. He resides on Cathance Lake in Cooper, where he is a Statler and Waldorf intern. Mr. Reisman’s views are his own, and he welcomes comments as letters to the editor here or to him directly via email at jreisman@maine.edu.